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    From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?=@[email protected] to comp.programming on Thu Sep 4 01:19:26 2025
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    The Big List of Naughty Strings is an evolving list of strings
    which have a high probability of causing issues when used as
    user-input data. This is intended for use in helping both automated
    and manual QA testing; useful for whenever your QA engineer walks
    into a bar.

    <https://github.com/minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-strings>

    The “walks into a bar” reference is to this <http://www.sempf.net/post/On-Testing1>:

    QA Engineer walks into a bar. Orders a beer. Orders 0 beers. Orders
    999999999 beers. Orders a lizard. Orders -1 beers. Orders a
    sfdeljknesv.

    Because that’s what testing is all about...
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  • From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?=@[email protected] to comp.programming on Thu Sep 4 01:21:49 2025
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    On Thu, 4 Sep 2025 01:19:26 -0000 (UTC), I wrote:

    The “walks into a bar” reference is to this <http://www.sempf.net/post/On-Testing1>:

    QA Engineer walks into a bar. Orders a beer. Orders 0 beers. Orders
    999999999 beers. Orders a lizard. Orders -1 beers. Orders a
    sfdeljknesv.

    Because that’s what testing is all about...

    Why did that suddenly come to mind? Because I just read about this
    incident where someone got the AI at a fast-food drive-through to
    accept an order for 18,000 cups of water <https://www.zdnet.com/article/someone-ordered-18000-cups-of-water-at-an-ai-drive-thru-now-fast-food-chains-are-reconsidering/>.

    Debugging actual human-written code is hard enough; how do you debug
    an AI?
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